[frio]

I suffer from UC, and a cavalcade of related illnesses. I honestly believe that tools like this are the future.

Particularly for me, I've noticed one of the problems with long term, chronic illness, is that you lose perspective -- an hour in the bog might seem like you're doing better than yesterday (and after 2 years, yesterday is "normal"), but for a normal person would imply it's perhaps time to see a doctor. I've hence come to rely quite closely on quantified self type stuff -- tracking how I'm doing on observable, concrete metrics -- so that I can see from a rational perspective that I've crossed a line. I've been building tooling in my spare time to give me d3 graphs and whatnot of my health, rather than server metrics.

I believe that kind of passive data gathering (active's no good, because people forget, lie, etc.) is going to become crucial for monitoring health, preventing illness, and improving patient outcomes.

Which is a long way of saying: awesome. This is truly transformative. I'll be signing up shortly.

[tlrobinson]

Agree 100% about passive vs. active data gathering. I can't even remember to charge/wear a Fitbit/FuelBand/Up/whatever every day, so I'm looking forward to the apps iPhone 5S's "motion coprocessor" enables.

Beddit looks interesting as well for sleep tracking: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/beddit-automatic-sleep-and...

More passive quantified self stuff, please!

[rdl]

I wish there were a passive food-ingestion tracker.